Tobiæ 10:3

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Vocaveruntque eum, et venit cum universo Israël, et locuti sunt ad Roboam, dicentes :

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
percutiamus fœdus cum Domino Deo nostro, ut projiciamus universas uxores, et eos qui de his nati sunt, juxta voluntatem Domini, et eorum qui timent præceptum Domini Dei nostri: secundum legem fiat.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
percutiamus foedus cum Domino Deo nostro, ut proiciamus universas uxores et eos, qui de his nati sunt, iuxta voluntatem Domini et eorum, qui timent praeceptum Domini Dei nostri, et secundum legem fiat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let us make: Nichrath berith, "let us cut a covenant:" Deuteronomy 29:12, Joshua 9:6, 2 Kings 11:17, 2 Chronicles 29:10, 2 Chronicles 34:31, 2 Chronicles 34:32, Nehemiah 9:38, Nehemiah 10:29-39

put away: Heb. bring forth

according to the counsel: 2 Chronicles 30:12

of those that: Ezra 9:4, 2 Chronicles 34:21, 2 Chronicles 34:27, Psalms 119:59, Psalms 119:120, Isaiah 66:2, Ezekiel 9:4

at the commandment: Deuteronomy 7:2, Deuteronomy 7:3, Joshua 23:12, Joshua 23:13

let it: Nehemiah 8:14, Nehemiah 13:1-3, Isaiah 8:20, Shechaniah's counsel, which he was then so clear in, will not hold now: such marriages, it is certain, are contrary to the will of God, and ought not to be made; but they are not null. Our rule under the gospel is Quod fieri non debuit, factum valet, "That which ought not to have been done must, when done, abide." See note on 1 Corinthians 7:12, 1 Corinthians 7:13

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:3 - made a covenant 2 Chronicles 23:16 - made a covenant Ezra 10:5 - made Ezra 10:12 - so must we do Proverbs 13:13 - he Malachi 2:10 - by Acts 24:25 - Felix Philippians 2:12 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God,.... Renew our covenant with him, and lay ourselves under fresh obligation by promise and oath, and unanimously agree

to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them; he means all the strange wives, such marriages being unlawful; and such wives might the more easily be put away, since bills of divorce were in frequent use with the Jews, and the children of such also being illegitimate; and the rather they were to be put away, lest they should corrupt other children, or get into the affections of their fathers, which might lead on to receive their mothers again, and especially this was to be done as a punishment of their sin: though no doubt but a provision was to be made, and was made, for the maintenance both of wives and children:

according to the counsel of my Lord; either of Ezra, whom he honours with this title, being a ruler under the king of Persia; or of the Lord God, according to his will declared in his words, which is his counsel:

and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; feared to break it, and dreaded the effect of such a breach; and who no doubt would follow the counsel of the Lord, and join in their advice to act according to the proposal made:

and let it be done according to the law; as that directs in such cases.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let it be done according to the law - i. e., let a formal “bill of divorcement” be given to each foreign wife, whereby she will be restored to the condition of an unmarried woman, and be free to marry another husband (see Deuteronomy 24:1-2). The facility of divorce among the Jews is well-known. According to many of the rabbis, a bill of divorcement might he given by the husband for the most trivial cause. Thus, no legal difficulty stood in the way of Shechaniah’s proposition; and Ezra regarded it as necessary for the moral and religious welfare of the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 10:3. Let us make a covenant — נכרת ברית nichrath berith, let us cut or divide the covenant sacrifice. Genesis 15:10.